San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-09-20
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Hanlan, the oarsmsn, is at Auckland,
New Zealand.
Twenty-Five socialists arrested at
Brest.
Phelps, American minister, is visiting
Lord Tweeddale In Scotland.
Prince Napoleon will issue counter
manifesto in reply to the count Of Paris.
The Mexican Central makes r very
low fruit rate TO Chicago and the north.
The rate war Ia reducing fares from
st. Louis to Cincinnati, to $500.
Sunday law in Victoria WAS so strict
that all fruit stands were closed.
The heavy east winds and high waters
that threatened Galveston have sbated.
Strike Of 200 street car men threat
ened on the Chicago West division.
DR.. Bernard O'Reilley, OF New YORK,
is made domestic chaplain TO the pope.
KING william opens the states gen.
eral, a Holland parliament.
Those fraudulent surveyors In New
Mexico are to be overhauled.
The telegraph men wheel Into line In
New York with the George movement.
Central labor union meeting at New
York shows no sympathy for Chicago
anarchists.
Signor Saracoo. minister OF public
works, opened the national railway con-
gress In Rome yesterday.
Maurice, son OF Sara Bernhard, Sc
verely wounds journalist who reflects
upon his mother.
Weather Is colder than usual from
Dakota east ward, over the whole lake
region.
There we're 1000 persons present. 1000
OF them ladies. at an anti-prOhibitiOn
meeting in Nashville, Tenn.
Seven zenith annual convention OF Ci-
gar Makers international union Is in
session at Binghampton. N. Y.
Peter Yoght. near WoskOmo, Texas,
mistakes strychnlne for gu sine and
dies.
A negro shoots an insurance clerk In
Louisville and attempts to rob the safe
at high noon. He escaped.
Corpus Christi engaged In some gun
practice Sunday night that discounted
their score in the late match.
Libersl-clerioal quarrel In Mexico re-
suits In duel between Gen. ROoha and
Senior Gayon
Returns from ten of the principal corn
growing states show there an aggregate
crop OF G9s per cent on average crop.
Iowa ranks the highest with 7Sper cent,
Kansas lowest with 33i per cent.
Fred Munchroth, charged with the
murder OF HaddOck (prOhibitiOnist) In
Sioux City. Iowa, is found guilty Of man
slaughter.
Railway accidents reported at Du-
buque, Iowa, killing 8; at Fearre sta
ton, Ind q st. Louis road, killing 2: at
Fosters crossing, on the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne and Chicago, killing 8.
The Capitol syndicate ranch is In
fair way to be traversed by railway,
which will enhance value and open 1t to
settlement.
An English mob disappointed at not
seeing an advertised foot race demol-
ished the stands, broke down the fences,
wrecked the pavilion and fireu the
whole business. The ground owners re-
fused to return the money.
New York judge dismisses So colored
gamblers remsrking that they had as
much right to gamble in their rooms, as
members OF the Union League or Man
haitian clubs In theirs.
The annual reunion of the Sixteenth
Connecticut Regiment at Hartford Sat-
urday, was made notable by the receipt
Of the regimental guidon captured In
1864 by the Second Alabama and re-
turned by the latter regiment. Resolu-
lions were adopted full of love and fra
ternal greeting which. with letter of a
similar nature from Col. Sheney, OF the
Sixteenth Connecticut, will be forward
ed to the Second Alabama.